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Shane GibsonSr. Architect & Community Evangelism at RackN

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Shane Gibson is an Architect, Engineer, and Community Evangelist working at RackN; leaders in physical and hybrid DevOps software. His experience spans over two decades and includes Mainframe Hardware and Operations, Unix Systems, Network Engineering, Computer Security, Virtualization Technologies, Cloud Platforms, and Production Operations. He is passionate about automation, full stack infrastructure architecture, and modern computing practices as applied to Production Operations environments.

Keeping up with patches has never been more critical. For hardware, that's... hard. What if servers were deployed 100% ready to run without any need for remote configuration or access? What if we were able to roll a complete rebuild of an entire application stack from the BIOS up in minutes? Those are key concepts behind a cloud and container deployment pattern called "immutable infrastructure." It's called immutable because the servers are deployed from container images produced by CI/CD process and destroyed after use instead of being reconfigured. It's a container and cloud pattern that has finally made it to physical.

In this talk, we'll cover the specific process and its advantages over traditional server configuration. Then we'll dive deeply into open tools and processes that make it possible to drive immutable containers into your own infrastructure. The talk will include live demos and will discuss process and field challenges that attendees will likely face when they start implementation at home. We'll also cover the significant security, time and cost benefits of this approach to make pitching the idea effective.